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CARQUEST Teams With Boys & Girls Clubs of Oakland for Power Hour CARQUEST Auto Parts Donates $100,000 to Boys & Girls Clubs Nationwide
| The Boys & Girls Clubs of Oakland |
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OAKLAND, California|December 11 , 2007
-Auto Parts is teaming up this school year with Boys & Girls Clubs of Oakland to support Power Hour, the Club’s interactive after-school program which provides tutoring, homework assistance and academic enrichment activities to its student-members, ages 6-17. Power Hour is conducted at the Library and Learning Centers and Teen Centers at each of the Club’s three branches – the Ossian E. Carr Branch in East Oakland, Leonard J. Meltzer Branch in West Oakland, and Anna Marie Whalen Branch in Central East Oakland. This $10,000 grant is part of a new national partnership between CARQUEST Auto Parts and Boys & Girls Clubs of America to promote learning and help young people achieve better lives for themselves through education.
CARQUEST Auto Parts has more than 3,400 locations throughout North America. It is the premier supplier of replacement products, accessories, supplies and equipment for virtually all makes and models of automobiles, as well as light and heavy-duty trucks, off-road equipment, buses, recreational vehicles and agricultural equipment. Additionally, CARQUEST distributes and sells tools, equipment, chemicals, paint and accessories.
According to Ronné Sims, Education Director, Anna Marie Whalen Branch, “Power Hour is the single most important hour of the afternoon for our student-members. The systematic homework assistance, tutoring, and enrichment activities are all structured to ignite a passion for learning and create a foundation for members to set and achieve higher academic goals.”
Boys & Girls Clubs of Oakland’s mission is to develop our community’s youth into positive contributors to society. Now in its 66th year, the Club continues to provide safe places to learn and grow, opportunities for ongoing relationships with caring adult professionals, life-enhancing programs, and other character development experiences each year for over 2,000 girls and boys, ages 6 to 17. The organization supplements the endeavors of our families and our schools, and plans to serve a minimum of 5,000 Oakland youth in the near future.
Please call Karin Seid at 510-444-8211 for more information.
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